Posted by: Kene (gnew1@comcast.net) on Thu May 31 08:04:04 2012

Joe,
I feel for you and your daughter. My son who is 17 also is doing the same thing now, barring the lead arm in the middle of the swing. Getting same results you mentioned, weak ground balls to infield. The rest of the swing looks good (lower body). Years past he was a great hitter with some power. This year his hitting has been terrible. Still makes contact but not good contact.

One thing you mentioned about her hands starting out lower now than in past years, makes me wonder if it may be part of the cause of her problem. My son who used to start his swing with his hands level with or above the shoulder is now lowering them to armpit height before initiating the swing. I have been trying to get him to keep them up but no luck in several months of trying.

At the beginning of the year he had other problems we had to work out and were able to eventually. But soon as we get one thing fixed another comes up. Can't understand how he could have such a good swing years prior and this year everything started out screwewd up.

Its hard to watch him go from a .500 or better hitter with a few home runs every year to batting probably sub .200 with no long balls at all.

I hope someone can chime in here as to why these kids started lowering their hands before swing initiation and why the arm barring during the swing.